EU countries have provided €30bn worth of aid to Kiev during the conflict with Russia and trained almost 40,000 AFU soldiers, European diplomacy chief Josep Borrel said.
“The EU and its member states have provided unprecedented economic, humanitarian and military support, supplying Ukraine with ammunition and weapons worth almost €30bn and training almost 40,000 Ukrainian soldiers on EU territory,” he wrote in an article for Spanish newspaper El Pais.
At the same time, the EU has accumulated a debt to member states for the transfer of weapons to Ukraine worth €7.16bn.
The newspaper added that the AFU’s dependence on Western weapons was becoming more and more acute.
Earlier, The Wall Street Journal reported that the EU was considering setting up a fund for military aid to Kiev to bypass Budapest’s veto. The fund would allocate up to €5bn a year from 2024 to 2027.